A commission says the United States leads in robotics software but lacks the deployment scale and domestic production needed to compete with China in physical AI.
Stryker plans to invest about $400 million in CMR Surgical and become the exclusive U.S. sales agent for its Versius surgical robot portfolio.
Monopulse raised over €2 million to increase drone production, fund research and development, and enter more NATO markets.
French startup HyLight raised €13 million to scale its autonomous hydrogen airships that inspect power lines, pipelines and railways with AI defect detection.
DeepSeek has agreed to lead a seed round of tens of millions of dollars for robotics startup Winverse AI at about a $400 million valuation, Bloomberg reported.
D.R. Horton will use Promise Robotics physical AI Factory-as-a-Service platform to support production of more than 1,250 homes.
Unitree Robotics founder Wang Xingxing says OpenAI's GPT-6 has shortened his expected timeline for a major advance in embodied intelligence to one or two years.
Reveal Technology launched Farsight 2.0, which combines authorized imagery in a shared terrain model and supports offline analysis by Army units.
Benewake has introduced the NOVA20, a compact solid state LiDAR sensor that measures nearby obstacles and edges around robotic platforms.
ROBOTERA says its VPP2 World Action Model ranked first on RoboDojo, recording a 32.26% average success rate and an average score of 39.26.
The Tutu robot dogs will guide visitors at Sands Resorts Macau, alongside indoor navigation and 3D resort previews from Amap.
Danu Robotics raised $5 million in late seed funding to commercialize H.E.R.O., its AI recycling sorting robot.
FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem and Faraday Future will present two humanoid robots, an education system and a reinforcement learning platform on October 14.
Performance Drone Works is integrating Booz Allen mission autonomy software powered by Shield AI's Hivemind into its AM drones. Controlled testing began September 30, with general availability planned for the first quarter of 2027.
BLADE will demonstrate its Hunter WOLF unmanned ground vehicle at Camp Grafton after advancing to Phase II of GroundBreaker 1.
The Mobile Robot Company's J1600 self driving pallet jack won the 2026 IFOY Industrial Truck of the Year award. The vehicle supports manual driving and autonomous pallet delivery.
Lemonade now offers a 30% discount on miles driven with Tesla FSD v14 Lite engaged for eligible HW3 vehicles in Arizona, Colorado and Tennessee.
DEWALT's DALE concrete drilling robot won a 2026 Fast Company Next Big Things in Tech Award after drilling more than 385,000 holes during pilot projects.
Danaher plans to launch an autonomous laboratory that combines AI, robotics and laboratory equipment to create and test antibodies and other affinity reagents.
Upbeat Technology has launched Bluemag Pi, a flight controller that combines aircraft control and onboard AI inference on one board.
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